Guys In Massachusetts Are Going To Love This ...

[JRutledge]

Originally Posted by BillyMac

I have little understating of football rules at any level, I was just trying to convey to our Forum basketball friends in The Bay State what they might see in a basketball handshake line scenario.

The fact that I can "yank their chains" and point out the foolishness of the handshake line requirement is an added bonus.

I'm saying the environment is different. Even in football we leave the field and do not stick around to watch them give handshakes. But you usually have a lot further to go to a locker room in a high school setting and you literally have no locker room in youth sports like this. My point is that it is possible that the officials could have seen this on some level, but if the officials are in a regular high school situation, they are not sticking around for the purpose of watching the handshake.

Peace

[BillyMac]

Originally Posted by JRutledge

I'm saying the environment is different.

Agree 100%, it's like comparing apples to meatloaf © 2018 Raymond, and maybe I shouldn't have even posted this article on a basketball forum. My point, maybe expressed poorly, was that any generic post game handshake line could escalate into something unsporting, and that almost all of us (that don't work in Massachusetts) would not normally have to deal with this unsporting situation in a basketball game, because almost all of us would already be in the locker room, turning on the water in the shower to get the water to run hot.

In other words, pretend that this was not in Virginia, but rather, in Massachusetts; and then pretend that it wasn't a football game, but a basketball game; and then thank our lucky stars that almost all of us don't work in Massachusetts.